Aganosma wallichii

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Description

Leaves: Inflorescence robust and lax, 4.6-19.5 cm long, strigose or tomentose; Sepals 9-23 by 1.8-6.1 mm, 3.2-10 times as long as wide, narrowly ovate, tomentose; Stamens inserted at 2.3-4.5 mm from corolla base which is 0.2-0.4 of tube length; Ovaries 0.8-1.8 mm long; Fruit unknown.

Distribution

Asia-Tropical: Jawa (Jawa present); Malaya (Peninsular Malaysia present); Sumatera (Sumatera present); Thailand (Thailand present), Burma present

Burma, Thailand; in Malesia: Sumatra, Peninsular Malaysia, Java.

Uses

Recorded as being used to treat diseases of the bile and blood.

Citation

Wight 1848 – In: Icon. Pl. Ind. Orient.: t. 1305

I.M. Turner 1997 – In: Gard. Bull. Singapore 47: 122

Kerr 1939 – In: Craib, Fl. Siam. 2: 470

Kurz 1877 – In: Forest Fl. Burma: 186

Miq. 1857 – In: Fl. Ned. Ind.: 446

Boerl. 1899 – In: Handl. Fl. Ned. Ind.: 400

D.J. Middleton 1999 – In: Fl. Thailand: 108

King & Gamble 1907 – In: J. Asiat. Soc. Bengal: 497

Backer & Bakh.f. 1965 – In: Fl. Java: 237

D.J. Middleton 1996 – In: Kew Bull.: 478

Koord.-Schum. 1912 – In: Syst. Verz.: 181

G. Watt 1889 – In: Dict. Econ. Prod. India: 128

Tsiang 1939 – In: Sunyatsenia: 38

Ridl. 1923 – In: Fl. Malay Penins.: 365

Tsiang 1939 – In: Sunyatsenia: 38

Hook.f. 1882 – In: Fl. Brit. India: 664

G. Don 2003 – In: PROSEA: 44

Brandis 1906: Indian Trees: 464